I hope they've kept that extra difficulty level they added last year (true-aim I think). Otherwise it's just too easy and not worth playing. However, when you don't have a circle and have to work out the distance yourself - can be tricky, especially approach shots.

I've been playing the demo with Move quite a bit now and starting to love it. Took me a while to realise you really need a normal controller for selecting types of shot. It's unworkable with just Move.

The trickiest thing I find is the putting. Watching the screen while moving my club back to where the line for optimum power is, all the time trying to retain a normal putting stroke, takes a bit of getting used to and not nearly as natural as playing regular shots.

The controller is very good at picking up wrist movements, which, is probably good and realistic for real golfers but I'm worried it might put off some people because it can be unforgiving. I've managed to quite deliberately hook and slice shots, so if your swing is a bit sloppy your shot will reflect it.

A lot of that sloppiness will be countered as you level up, but I predict quite a tricky start to the campaign for some people if you only use Move.

I'll definitely be picking this up, it has all the challenge and satisfaction when playing the real game(almost).

Completely forgot this was out this week... colour me excited. I rate Everybody's Golf as a better game, but the opportunity to play Augusta is too great for me. One of the few courses in the world where playing the videogame is literally the closest you'll ever get to the real thing... unfortunately.

Greggywocky... wrote:
Did I miss something in the demo - you can't choose your own club now, or calculate the distance, as the caddy does it all for you - rather than yardage it just gives you a percentage?

If you are doing the Road to Masters in the demo, the caddie does it all for you. Once you have completed the 18th hole with Tiger Woods, you start your own path and begin a 5 hole pre amateur event. You can change clubs, stroke style etc. There is a yardage on the cursor as well although it is small compared to the percentage number.

I will be picking this up. Mainly due however to the fact that the live servers were switched off for TW09. This version will support my online golf gaming habit out until the new consoles are released. Unless EA get a twitchy server power socket finger again...

Greggywocky... wrote:
Did I miss something in the demo - you can't choose your own club now, or calculate the distance, as the caddy does it all for you - rather than yardage it just gives you a percentage?

You can choose to play a custom shot which allows you to select your club and shows the yardage for a 100 percent swing with that club. e.g on tee press L1 and R1 to cycle between the caddie's recommendations or your own preference.

The caddie gives you a couple of safe options, but you can set the shot up completely yourself, changing clubs with L2 and R2 and moving direction with the d-pad. You can also alter 100 percent distances by moving the right stick for your grip and pressing r3 to choke the club. Part of the game, apparently, is that when you start out your caddie knows jack shit about some courses until you play them frequently and he levels up his "Mastery", so often your own shot needs to be calibrated.

I'm pretty sure there is, think I saw it on there the other day. You can make the game harder you know, there's difficulty sliders in the proper game. You should buy this game anyway, cos you can use Gameface to scan yourself in, so you can see what you look like with hair!